Thursday, March 31, 2011

The Continuance is a set of batteries with a USB interface on the side. Designed by Haimo Bao, Hailong Piao, Yuancheng, the battery can be recharged via a USB connection. You can also use this battery to recharge your gadgets via a USB port. In addition, the Continuance battery concept is an iF concept design [...]

The Continuance is a set of batteries with a USB interface on the side. Designed by Haimo Bao, Hailong Piao, Yuancheng, the battery can be recharged via a USB connection. You can also use this battery to recharge your gadgets via a USB port. In addition, the Continuance battery concept is an iF concept design entry for 2011. [Yanko]

Logitech has introduced the new LAN-WH450N/GR wireless router that has a very unique tri-tenna design. This wireless router comes with all basics features found on nowadays router with UPnP, Dynamic DNS, etc. The Logitech LAN-WH450N/GR also supports the 5GHz bandwidth on IEEE 802.11a/n, allowing you to enjoy 450Mbps speed on compatible devices. The new Logitech [...]

Logitech has introduced the new LAN-WH450N/GR wireless router that has a very unique tri-tenna design. This wireless router comes with all basics features found on nowadays router with UPnP, Dynamic DNS, etc. The Logitech LAN-WH450N/GR also supports the 5GHz bandwidth on IEEE 802.11a/n, allowing you to enjoy 450Mbps speed on compatible devices. The new Logitech LAN-WH450N/GR wireless router will start shipping in Japan in April and be available to purchase for around $230. [Akihabara]

Already available in the US, Acer’s brand new gaming desktop PC ‘Aspire G3600 Predator‘ is finally making its way to European market in mid-April. The system will be sold for a retail price of 799 Euro (about $1,131). To remind you, the Aspire G3600 Predator packs a 2nd generation Core processor, a discrete graphics card [...]

Already available in the US, Acer’s brand new gaming desktop PC ‘Aspire G3600 Predator‘ is finally making its way to European market in mid-April. The system will be sold for a retail price of 799 Euro (about $1,131). To remind you, the Aspire G3600 Predator packs a 2nd generation Core processor, a discrete graphics card from AMD or NVIDIA, up to 8GB RAM, up to 6TB of storage (via three 2TB hard drives), a DVD writer or Blu-ray drive, a multi-in-one card reader, Gigabit Ethernet, a USB 3.0 port (optional) and runs on Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit OS. [Softpedia]

Mach Xtreme Technology is proud to present their newest line of 1.8-inch SSDs called the MX-MDS. Available in 40GB, 60GB and 90GB capacities, these SSDs are equipped with the latest SandForce SF-1222 controller, MLC NAND Flash memory chips, a micro-SATA interface, a MTBF of 1.5 million hours and promise to deliver read/write speeds of up [...]

Mach Xtreme Technology is proud to present their newest line of 1.8-inch SSDs called the MX-MDS. Available in 40GB, 60GB and 90GB capacities, these SSDs are equipped with the latest SandForce SF-1222 controller, MLC NAND Flash memory chips, a micro-SATA interface, a MTBF of 1.5 million hours and promise to deliver read/write speeds of up to 220/210 MB/s (40GB model) and 285/275 MB/s (60GB & 90GB models), respectively. The MX-MDS SSDs will start shipping on April 11th for 135 Euro / about $191 (40GB), 165 Euro / about $233 (60GB) and 220 Euro / about $311 (90GB), respectively. [Mach Xtreme]

The Casio G-Shock G-Aviation GW3500B-1A watch combines advanced timepiece technology with high performance functionality. The watch has a meticulously styled large case analog-digital face with distinctive black and yellow accents. What makes the Casio G-Shock G-Aviation GW3500B-1A more interesting is that it also receives calibration signals from up to six transmission stations around the world. [...]

The Casio G-Shock G-Aviation GW3500B-1A watch combines advanced timepiece technology with high performance functionality. The watch has a meticulously styled large case analog-digital face with distinctive black and yellow accents. What makes the Casio G-Shock G-Aviation GW3500B-1A more interesting is that it also receives calibration signals from up to six transmission stations around the world. If you are interested, you can buy the Casio G-Shock G-Aviation GW3500B-1A for $260. [Casio].

Supporting both Intel (LGA775, LGA1155, LGA1156, LGA1366) and AMD (AM2, AM2+, AM3) processors, the M608 Pro is the latest CPU cooler from Xilence Technology. This high performance cooler is packed with four copper heatpipes, an aluminum heatsink and a 120mm fan that operates at 500 to 1500 RPM. The Xilence M608 retails for 48.90 Euro [...]

Supporting both Intel (LGA775, LGA1155, LGA1156, LGA1366) and AMD (AM2, AM2+, AM3) processors, the M608 Pro is the latest CPU cooler from Xilence Technology. This high performance cooler is packed with four copper heatpipes, an aluminum heatsink and a 120mm fan that operates at 500 to 1500 RPM. The Xilence M608 retails for 48.90 Euro (about $69). [Softpedia]

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Apple’s iPad has crushed ever single competitor that tried to compete with the mighty iPad. iPad is the best tablet out there. All others don’t come even close. You can read books, newspapers and blogs on an iPad. You can play games, draw doodles, adjust images on it too. However, all the fun is lost [...]

Apple’s iPad has crushed ever single competitor that tried to compete with the mighty iPad. iPad is the best tablet out there. All others don’t come even close. You can read books, newspapers and blogs on an iPad. You can play games, draw doodles, adjust images on it too. However, all the fun is lost when you have to use just one hand in order to use all those features that iPad offers. You always have to hold it in one hand and operate using another. That’s where iPad stands come to help. iPad stands make holding and operating your Apple iPad a snap.

Various iPad stands have been introduced over the months and you might have even see the PadPivot iPad Stand we posted about a few days back. We have collected some of the best, some of the most creative iPad stands in this post. We are sure that you are going to love them.

TwelveSouth BookArc

TwelveSouth BookArc is one of the most sleek stands we encountered in the market. It can hold your iPad in tilted or straight-up positions. It is a very beautiful, elegant gauge of steel that holds your iPad pretty well. It can hold your iPad in upto 4 position and the raised position helps you fit all the wires and charger pin into your iPad pretty easily. [visit BookArc]

Cost: $29.99 | Coolness Factor: 5/5

Elago P2

Elago designed iPad stand will make your iPad look like a small sized iMac. The stand’s design resembles the frame of an iMac. As of now, it is available in white and black colors only. Elago Stand has a hole in the back for the cable management. It holds all the cables pretty neatly hence making it suitable for desktops. [visit Elago Design]

Price: $29.99 | Coolness Factor: 4.5/5

DZDock

DZDock is a very simple yet very useful stand for your iPad. No fluff, no big parts, no useless weight – DZDock is all about simplicity. It holds the iPad pretty effortlessly and I particularly like the idea of how the space for charger cable and dock is made up. [visit DZDock]

Price: $25 | Coolness Factor: 5/5

Groovy Stand for iPad

It is a very minimalistic stand for your device. Best for viewing recipes when you are preparing them in your kitchen. It is a very portable and affordable iPad stand at the same time. GroovyStand comes in various designs, a dual slot for holding the iPad as well as any case it might be in, a single slot and one dual angle stand design.[visit GroovyStand]

Cost: $7.95 -$18.95. | Coolness Factor: 4/5

PadPivot

PadPivot is an incredible and intuitive iPad stand and at the same time doubles as a iPad dock too. Jim Young and Bernie Graham are two independent designers behind the creation of PadPivot. The PadPivot has a no slippery design to make sure it doesn’t fall off your lap. Each PadPivot comes with a microfibre cloth to clean off the smudges due to your fingers from the iPad screen. [view more details]

Price: $25 | Coolness Factor: 5/5

ClamCase

Clamcase is one of the most innovative cases-cum stand for your touch device. It has got enough space to hold your iPad as well as any bluetooth keyboard you might have. The design is elegant and will make you feel like you’re using a laptop when you want to. [visit Clamcase]

Price: $199 | Coolness Factor: 4/5 (Check also, the ZAGGmate below.)

ZAGGMate

I am sure many of you already have the ZAGG’s InvibleShield on your device, if you haven’t – you should seriously check them out. The same company is now making these cool ipad-cum-Keyboard holders and are much cheaper than the ClamCase above. It does pretty much the same thing as the ClamCase except it doesn’t look as cool. [Visit ZAGGMate]

Price: $95.95 | Coolness factor: 3/5

Griffin A-Frame

Griffin A-Frame is a nice little stand for your Apple iPad device that does exactly what it is supposed to, hold the device is all angles suitable for viewing pleasure. The Griffin stand holds iPad upright in landscape and portrait views or at a lower, wrist-friendly angle for surfing, reading and more. It is a very stable aluminum a-frame design. It holds your device in landscape as well as portrait modes. [Visit Griffin A-Frame]

Price: $29.26 | Coolness Factor: 4.5/5

Macally BookStand

Macally bookstand can be used for holding your device in a few angles for watching movies or reading stuff without using both your hands. It is also good as a case for iPad. It is pretty neat and holds the device perfectly. [visit Macally Bookstand]

Price: $18.33 | Coolness Factor: 3/5

Kickstand

Kickstand for ipad is exactly what the name suggests, it is a kickstand. If you are just looking for an old-school iPad stand, this thing is for you. [visit Kickstand for iPad]

Price: $18.99 | Coolness Factor: 3.5/5

BookGem Book holder

If you want to buy an all in one product for holding your iPad, your Kindle or your actual real book – BookGem is for you. They make some of the best stands out there and boy, are the cool. [visit BookGem]

Price: $14.95 | Coolness Factor: 4.5/5

Stabile

Stabile is yet another stand that look like the frame of an iMac. It is simillar to the Elago P2 we have featured above. It is a chrome plated design and if it is your thing, you might like it. The Stabile weighs about 2.5 times the weight of an iPad. The stabile can be adjusted to around 55° viewing angle in portrait or landscape mode. It has also got 4 holding pad locations. [visit Stabile]

Price: $59.99 | Coolness Factor: 4.5/5

WedgePad

What better could be there than a classic pillow with a bit of a slope for the perfect viewing angle on iPad. The WedgePad stand for the iPad is sloped at a 30° degree angle to minimize wrist discomfort while enhancing your viewing angle. However, at times it can also be positioned to stand at a 45° degree angle for increased visibility. This is particularly useful while you are watching movies. [visit WedgePad]

Price: $27 | Coolness Factor: 1/5

Compass iPad Stand

At $40, the Compass seems reasonable enough. It also solves some of the issues I noted in my review: Looking at the photos, you can use the dock cable in portrait and landscape mode. It also looks light. While I like to tote my Joule around, many times I leave it at home because it’s way too heavy. [visit Compass]

Price: $39.99 | Coolness Factor: 5/5

Joule Stand for iPad

The Joule stand is handcrafted in California in plain aluminum or anodized black and needless to say is the most elegant iPad Stand design we have seen to date. That also means it is on the more expensive side if you are thinking about buying it. This stand can hold your iPad in landscape as well as portrait mode. It is made from solid aluminum bricks, CNC’ed just like the Apple does to the unibody iPad and MacBooks. It is available to be bought in chrome or anodized black finishes. The magnetically-attached tilt foot enables you to easily change the viewing angle of the iPad for your viewing please and rubber pads for grip and a velvet-lined recess are put there so you can avoid scratching it. [visit Joule]

Price: $129 | Coolness Factor: 5/5

All in all, the iPad stands are one of the must-have Apple iPad accessories out these. If you have been hunting for iPad stand, we hope your search finishes here and you have found the new mate for your iPad.

I recently found this little app and I have totally fell in love with it. The CloudApp is one of the few things that make me feel proud to be a Mac owner. CloudApp is a very small and simple app that lets you use the cloud for sharing content with your friends on the [...]

I recently found this little app and I have totally fell in love with it. The CloudApp is one of the few things that make me feel proud to be a Mac owner. CloudApp is a very small and simple app that lets you use the cloud for sharing content with your friends on the fly. Once you download the CloudApp and install it on your make, you will get a small ‘cloud’ icon in the title bar just beside the clock. You can just drag the content you want to share with your friends into this cloud icon and it will be automatically uploaded to cl.ly servers and the link will be automatically placed into your clip-board. After that just use command+V to paste the link into an instant messenger client, emails, website etc.

CloudApp is so far the best tool I have found for sharing content with your friends. If you want to share a screenshot with a friend, just use the “Automatically Upload Screenshots” feature to upload screenshots as soon as you take them. After that, just use command+V to paste the link as it is automatically placed into your clipboard after you take the screenshot.

CloudApp has the ability to categorize your content based on the type of content. It can automatically places the uploads under “Documents”, Videos, Audio, Images and Others. With a free account, there is a limit of 10 uploads per day but I found it to be quite sufficient for my use. You can always move to the Pro account by paying a little fee of $5 a month or $45 for a year. Do you really need to pay that amount? Well, use the free account, check for yourself how cool the service is. If you use way too many uploads a day, it is good to upgrade to CloudApp Pro account and get unlimited everything.

With a Pro CloudApp account, there is no restrictions on file upload size or number of uploads you can make per day. You can use this service as if it were a part of your operating system or Mac. This app also has something called RainDrops. RainDrops are basically just add-ons for integrating CloudApp with other Mac apps. For example, you can use the the iPhoto RainDrop to integrate CloudApp into iPhote and then uploads the photos you want to share directly inside iPhoto. Pretty neat feature I would say.

HANNSG has recently launched the HL245 LED monitor. The 23.6-inch LED display features a 15,000,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio, a 1920×1080 Full HD resolution, a 1000:1 typical contrast ratio, a 250cd/m2 brightness, a 5ms response time and a 170/160 degree viewing angle. Additional specs include VGA out, Audio out, and DVI-D (HDCP). The HANNSG HL245 LED [...]

HANNSG has recently launched the HL245 LED monitor. The 23.6-inch LED display features a 15,000,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio, a 1920×1080 Full HD resolution, a 1000:1 typical contrast ratio, a 250cd/m2 brightness, a 5ms response time and a 170/160 degree viewing angle. Additional specs include VGA out, Audio out, and DVI-D (HDCP). The HANNSG HL245 LED monitor retails for $218 each. [PCLaunches]

Online store Hammacher has started selling the Audio Light Bulb that allows you to light up a room and fill it with your favorite tunes at the same time. Audio is transmitted wirelessly to the light bulbs through a transmitter plugged into the audio output of your stereo or computer. Providing crisp audio, the full-range, [...]

Online store Hammacher has started selling the Audio Light Bulb that allows you to light up a room and fill it with your favorite tunes at the same time. Audio is transmitted wirelessly to the light bulbs through a transmitter plugged into the audio output of your stereo or computer. Providing crisp audio, the full-range, 10-watt speaker receives interference-free wireless audio signals from up to 50 feet away from its transmitter, which docks with any iPod/iPhone equipped with a 30-pin connector. The speaker has integrated LEDs that provide bright light similar to a 60-watt light bulb. The included remote controls volume, play/pause, and light dimming to 50% of brightness. [Hammacher]

TG Trigem will launch two new slim desktops in South Korea. Known as the TG Trigem G141 and W242, these desktop PCs features a DVD Super Multi drive and a card reader. The G141 is powered by an Intel Core i5 2300 processor with a 4GB of RAM, a 1TB of HDD and an nVidia [...]

TG Trigem will launch two new slim desktops in South Korea. Known as the TG Trigem G141 and W242, these desktop PCs features a DVD Super Multi drive and a card reader. The G141 is powered by an Intel Core i5 2300 processor with a 4GB of RAM, a 1TB of HDD and an nVidia GeForce GT220 graphics card, while the W242 features an Intel Core i3-2100 processor with a 3GB of RAM and an nVidia GeForce G310 graphics card. [Akihabara]

ASKA Japan has launched a new USB 3.0 card reader in the form of the USBCR30. This card reader supports most of famous memory cards including SDXC ones. The ASKA USBCR30 is currently available in Japan for 3,990 Yen or around $48. [ASKA]

ASKA Japan has launched a new USB 3.0 card reader in the form of the USBCR30. This card reader supports most of famous memory cards including SDXC ones. The ASKA USBCR30 is currently available in Japan for 3,990 Yen or around $48. [ASKA]

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

HANNSG has recently launched the HL245 LED monitor. The 23.6-inch LED display features a 15,000,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio, a 1920×1080 Full HD resolution, a 1000:1 typical contrast ratio, a 250cd/m2 brightness, a 5ms response time and a 170/160 degree viewing angle. Additional specs include VGA out, Audio out, and DVI-D (HDCP). The HANNSG HL245 LED [...]

HANNSG has recently launched the HL245 LED monitor. The 23.6-inch LED display features a 15,000,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio, a 1920×1080 Full HD resolution, a 1000:1 typical contrast ratio, a 250cd/m2 brightness, a 5ms response time and a 170/160 degree viewing angle. Additional specs include VGA out, Audio out, and DVI-D (HDCP). The HANNSG HL245 LED monitor retails for $218 each. [PCLaunches]

Online store Hammacher has started selling the Audio Light Bulb that allows you to light up a room and fill it with your favorite tunes at the same time. Audio is transmitted wirelessly to the light bulbs through a transmitter plugged into the audio output of your stereo or computer. Providing crisp audio, the full-range, [...]

Online store Hammacher has started selling the Audio Light Bulb that allows you to light up a room and fill it with your favorite tunes at the same time. Audio is transmitted wirelessly to the light bulbs through a transmitter plugged into the audio output of your stereo or computer. Providing crisp audio, the full-range, 10-watt speaker receives interference-free wireless audio signals from up to 50 feet away from its transmitter, which docks with any iPod/iPhone equipped with a 30-pin connector. The speaker has integrated LEDs that provide bright light similar to a 60-watt light bulb. The included remote controls volume, play/pause, and light dimming to 50% of brightness. [Hammacher]

TG Trigem will launch two new slim desktops in South Korea. Known as the TG Trigem G141 and W242, these desktop PCs features a DVD Super Multi drive and a card reader. The G141 is powered by an Intel Core i5 2300 processor with a 4GB of RAM, a 1TB of HDD and an nVidia [...]

TG Trigem will launch two new slim desktops in South Korea. Known as the TG Trigem G141 and W242, these desktop PCs features a DVD Super Multi drive and a card reader. The G141 is powered by an Intel Core i5 2300 processor with a 4GB of RAM, a 1TB of HDD and an nVidia GeForce GT220 graphics card, while the W242 features an Intel Core i3-2100 processor with a 3GB of RAM and an nVidia GeForce G310 graphics card. [Akihabara]

ASKA Japan has launched a new USB 3.0 card reader in the form of the USBCR30. This card reader supports most of famous memory cards including SDXC ones. The ASKA USBCR30 is currently available in Japan for 3,990 Yen or around $48. [ASKA]

ASKA Japan has launched a new USB 3.0 card reader in the form of the USBCR30. This card reader supports most of famous memory cards including SDXC ones. The ASKA USBCR30 is currently available in Japan for 3,990 Yen or around $48. [ASKA]